Parametri

The language parameter is the language code which consists of the
two letter ISO 639 language code and an optional two letter ISO
3166 country code after a dash or underscore.

spelling

The spelling parameter is the requested spelling for languages
with more than one spelling such as English. Known values are
'american', 'british', and 'canadian'.

jargon

The jargon parameter contains extra information to distinguish
two different words lists that have the same language and
spelling parameters.

encoding

The encoding parameter is the encoding that words are expected to
be in. Valid values are 'utf-8', 'iso8859-*', 'koi8-r',
'viscii', 'cp1252', 'machine unsigned 16', 'machine unsigned
32'. This parameter is largely untested, so be careful when
using.

mode

The mode parameter is the mode in which spellchecker will work.
There are several modes available:

PSPELL_FAST - Fast mode (least number of
suggestions)

PSPELL_NORMAL - Normal mode (more suggestions)

PSPELL_BAD_SPELLERS - Slow mode (a lot of
suggestions)

PSPELL_RUN_TOGETHER - Consider run-together words
as legal compounds. That is, "thecat" will be a legal compound,
although there should be a space between the two words. Changing this
setting only affects the results returned by
pspell_check(); pspell_suggest()
will still return suggestions.

Mode is a bitmask constructed from different constants listed above.
However, PSPELL_FAST,
PSPELL_NORMAL and
PSPELL_BAD_SPELLERS are mutually exclusive, so you
should select only one of them.

Exemple

User Contributed Notes 2 notes

Just as a small tip, I noticed that when you call pspell_new multiple times, php does not free memory usage when the resource is destroyed, but only when your entire script has completely finished. So if you create a pspell_link resource and you intend to use it again somewhere else, instead of calling pspell_new again, keep track of your original pspell_link resource instantiation, and use it again, your script will run much more efficiently.

I was switching between 16 dictionaries by just calling a new pspell_new everytime, my memory usage on the server grew until i hit a failure/php core dump. :-/ So i stored each pspell resource in an array keyed by language, and checked if the resource existed first, before creating one if needed.